Zee5 video download

[Username_1]

Hi,
This is my 1st post . I have seen a similar one but that's giving a paid solution. So I would like to ask if anyone can guide me finding the m3u8 link and further process to download video here in this link
https://www.zee5.com/tv-shows/details/jodha-akbar/0-6-447/episode-1-jodha-akbar/0-1-jo...ode_1465338501
Mote: tried many websites and dev tools network tab as well earlier.

[october262]

Hi,
This is my 1st post . I have seen a similar one but that's giving a paid solution. So I would like to ask if anyone can guide me finding the m3u8 link and further process to download video here in this link
https://www.zee5.com/tv-shows/details/jodha-akbar/0-6-447/episode-1-jodha-akbar/0-1-jo...ode_1465338501
Mote: tried many websites and dev tools network tab as well earlier.

try using the firefox browser add-on called the stream detector.

[jack_666]

No m3u8, but mpd.


Your stream is encrypted. You will need keys to decrypt.


yt-dlp --allow-u "mpd_url"

[Angel_Cyclops]

Separate encrypted a:v files are downloaded. You need the KID:Key to decrypt and merge with ffmpeg.

[helloImNoob]

Hi,
This is my 1st post . I have seen a similar one but that's giving a paid solution. So I would like to ask if anyone can guide me finding the m3u8 link and further process to download video here in this link
https://www.zee5.com/tv-shows/details/jodha-akbar/0-6-447/episode-1-jodha-akbar/0-1-jo...ode_1465338501
Mote: tried many websites and dev tools network tab as well earlier.

nondrm url is this https://zee5vodnd.akamaized.net/hls1/elemental/hls/TVShows/Jodha_Akbar_Hindi_Ep01_Rev1_RTR_hi_8a837de965a62e5 d49493766affec758/index-connected.m3u8?hdnea=st=1667880416~exp=1667884136~ acl=/hls1/elemental/hls/TVShows/Jodha_Akbar_Hindi_Ep01_Rev1_RTR_hi_8a837de965a62e5 d49493766affec758/index-connected.m3u8*~hmac=db12997992302d15da54df90ca44f xxxxxxxxxxxxx1b64a647e404321ff

but it expires in an hour

in that case 8b006ffd39a142afb396f02f11c160a0:8e764ad012c60b99b 314bdd04d3c7f60

[AllisOne]

I sucessfully used FireDM: https://www.videohelp.com/software/pyIDM
Just copied: https://www.zee5.com/global/tv-shows/details/jodha-akbar/0-6-447/episode-1-jodha-akbar...ode_1465338501
No need for The Stream Detector or VideoDownloadHelper to find streams (You might need them to find subtitles vtt link). The program will do it for you, at least for zee5. On other pages those addons might be helpful.
I downloaded stream: mp4 - 360p - 640x360. It is not encrypted - I could play it on MPC-BE.

Small instruction, because this program isn't developed anymore ("thanks" Google!):
After downloading and unziping FireDM, start it and go to Updates. Click "Check for updates". Components will get updated (you need new versions of yt_dlp or youtube_dl). Close FireDM, go to its folder and in subfolder lib delete the “firedm” folder and rename “firedm_bkup” to just “firedm”. And then start it. Do it always after updating the libraries, because the last version 2022.4.14 was made to block the program. Last working version is 2022.2.5. Don't forget to set "Select video extractor" to yt_dlp (because at the moment it gets actively mantained) and put ffmpeg.exe in main folder and set its path in Settings.

PS. This program is pretty good and if anybody knows if the developer is working on something new, please, tell me.

[helloImNoob]

kek ...

[Username_1]

Since firedm is no longer supported, is it safe to use?

[helloImNoob]

you said that you already tried seeing devtools, what did you try to find there?


https://ibb.co/XZWjpH1

ofcourse didnt look quite deep enough, eh?

[Username_1]

I tried finding a direct link as it's there in some websites in their requests tab . But after some reading online got to know that there is an API that this page uses and to call that we need some additional things like headers,referer to name the ones . But didn't get the exact way to do this call ..hence got stuck.